U+8836 "蠶" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
蠶
U+8836 "蠶" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a traditional Chinese character used primarily in East Asian languages, such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, where it denotes the concept of a silkworm. This ideograph is constructed with the radical for insect or worm, reflecting its biological association, and appears in classical texts as well as modern contexts related to sericulture, the practice of raising silkworms for silk production. Its intricate strokes and historical usage underscore its role in representing one of the earliest domesticated insects vital to the development of the silk trade in ancient China.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+8836 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Block | CJK Unified Ideographs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 蠶 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 蠶 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE8 0xA0 0xB6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x8836 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00008836 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u8836 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kAlternateTotalStrokes | 26:J |
| kBigFive | C5FA |
| kCCCII | 215741 |
| kCNS1986 | 1-7C66 |
| kCNS1992 | 1-7C66 |
| kCangjie | MUALI |
| kCantonese | caam4 |
| kCihaiT | 1201.602 |
| kCowles | 4686 |
| kDaeJaweon | 1566.340 |
| kDefinition | silkworm |
| kEACC | 215741 |
| kFanqie | 昨含 |
| kFenn | 801E |
| kFennIndex | 543.03 |
| kFourCornerCode | 1113.6 |
| kGB1 | 1847 |
| kGSR | 0660i |
| kHangul | 잠:0N |
| kHanYu | 42908.110 |
| kHanyuPinlu | cán(62) |
| kHanyuPinyin | 42908.110:cán |
| kHKGlyph | 3665 |
| kIICore | ATHKMP |
| kIRGDaeJaweon | 1566.340 |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 42908.110 |
| kIRGKangXi | 1103.330 |
| kIRG_GSource | G1-324F |
| kIRG_HSource | HB1-C5FA |
| kIRG_JSource | J0-6A44 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP0-E6DB |
| kIRG_KSource | K0-6D59 |
| kIRG_TSource | T1-7C66 |
| kIRG_VSource | V1-663F |
| kJapanese | サン ザン かいこ |
| kKoreanName | 2015 |
| kJapaneseKun | KAIKO |
| kJapaneseOn | SAN TEN |
| kJis0 | 7436 |
| kKangXi | 1103.330 |
| kKorean | CAM |
| kLau | 178 |
| kMandarin | cán |
| kMatthews | 6698 |
| kMeyerWempe | 3231 |
| kMojiJoho | MJ023834 MJ023834:E0103 MJ023833:E0104 MJ023835:E0105 |
| kMorohashi | 33890:E0104 |
| kNelson | 2096 |
| kPhonetic | 25 |
| kRSAdobe_Japan1_6 | C+6569+142.6.20 V+13593+142.6.20 V+14215+142.6.18 |
| kRSUnicode | 142.18 |
| kSBGY | 222.35 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+8695<kMatthews,kMeyerWempe |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "蚕" U+8695 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 624.03 287.09 |
| kSMSZD2003Readings | cán粵caam4 |
| kTaiwanTelegraph | 5874 |
| kTang | *dzhom |
| kTotalStrokes | 24 |
| kUnihanCore2020 | HJKMPT |
| kVietnamese | tằm tàm |
| kXerox | 247:121 |
| kXHC1983 | 0103.031:cán |